Lonehill Animal Welfare News

Featured in our photos this week are: KLAUS a domestic stray who wandered into an office park at the beginning of lockdown last year, never claimed, who is being bitten by mozzies. Having now been ‘out in the wild’ for a while he, actually she, is not so easy to handle. After a few months of appearing regularly at feed time we trapped Klaus and got him to the Vet, no microchip and not a boy but a girl, but the name has stuck. Once opened up the Vet discovered that she had already been spayed so they just treated her for the mozzie bites, notched her ear and she went back to the office park. The feeder has been working with her because we need to catch her again to go back for another injection for the bites tho’ Klaus has been allowing us to apply various mozzie deterrents and meds. but she needs another injection which lasts longer. This week she has let us pick her up for a few seconds with no struggling so the hope is we can pop her into a drop in carrier, as she has become very trap wary, and get her to the Vet.

The 2 kittens, siblings, are domestics, dumped and abandoned, found by a passerby who is now caring for them with the possibility of adopting them. They have ringworm, no doubt why they were dumped, which is now being treated. Being domestics and so young, around 5 weeks of age, they could not fend for themselves and would have died. They are skin and bone but now on the road to recovery with warm beds, good food and love.

Updates:

Sarah: see photo on the left. After a few thousand rands she appears to be back to her normal self and her foster dad tells me she even does ‘zoomies’ around the house jumping from one couch to the next and then onto the armrest without limping or showing any signs of pain or discomfort. Thank you all for the donations towards her medical care. She has a new lease on life.

Abby:  The next cat I wish to assist at the shelter and is always overlooked because there is always another emergency on the go or due to lack of funds, is Abby. Abby came to the shelter early 2019 when she gave birth to 6 kittens although she was still only a kitten herself. She and her litter then went into foster care. She was then spayed and once the kittens had been homed she returned to the shelter. From day one back at the shelter she was never 100 per cent being lethargic and withdrawn. I brought her down from the shelter early 2019 and we had bloodwork done from which we could not establish what the problem was but could see there was something amiss and she was treated for various possible ailments.

We now believe that when being spayed 2 years ago part of the ovaries or uterus were not removed. She currently, every few weeks, comes in heat. First step is to redo the bloods and then possibly do surgery to establish if the Vet can find anything left behind that should have been removed previously, this can be major surgery.  However, I cannot do this until I have raised the funds to cover the Vets costs which are already at a discounted rate. 

Abby is a Torbie i.e. her coat is a mix between a Tortie and a Tabby. She was a domestic stray but having been at the shelter now for over 2 years she is very timid but homeable and one of my favourites, now about 2 and a half years old. Any donations towards her care would be greatly appreciated please make the reference “Abby + cell number”. I am personally paying the vet bills incurred for these cats out of my own pocket.

A huge thanks to Eileen of Lonehill Manor Retirement Estate where last year I trapped and had sterilised several of the feral cats and a few weeks ago caught a youngster called Oliver who has now been neutered and vaccinated and found a home in Glenferness. Eileen your donation will go towards Vet bills.